The Judicial Police (PJ) participated in an international operation to combat corruption, embezzlement and economic involvement in business involving powerful criminal organizations in Brazil. We are talking about investigations aimed at eliminating schemes for illegal legalization and certification of documents for obtaining Portuguese citizenship.
The searches took place at the national level, in the city of Lisbon, as well as in Brazil, in Rio de Janeiro and Saquarema. More than one hundred personal evidence collection events were carried out.
ABOUT CM has already provided information that The Portuguese Consulate in Brazil has received several complaints from users reporting situations that may constitute crimes.
Criminal networks are being investigated for the theft of visas, the provision of confidential information through usurpation of functions, the illegal allocation of scheduled vacancies for consular actions, as well as the performance of consular actions for which there is no legal qualification and remuneration. embezzlement.
In the news published this Monday, DN writes that some employees of the Portuguese consulate in Rio de Janeiro may have ties to the organizations Primeiro Comando da Capital and Comando Vermelho and that “for security reasons” the federal police did not even allow searches of their homes.
Authorities believe that these criminal groups had accomplices in the consulate who stationed their fighters in Portugal. ABOUT DN he also writes that there are more than a dozen accused, most of them Brazilians, employees and former employees and people close to them.
So far, the newspaper adds, authorities have identified about 30 Brazilian citizens who came to Portugal in a scheme linked to criminal networks.
In exchange for about 300 euros (about 1500 reais in a country where the minimum wage is about 1300) – according to DN – the staff placed certain people in front of those waiting for vacancies, in a sort of Via Verde for service.
According to the Brazilian press cited by DN, “thanks to a scheme created by consulate officials, documentation planning for intermediary companies was redirected to the client’s site.”
One line of investigation also links the scheme to the infiltration of Portugal by elements of the First Capital Command through a previous connection with the Portuguese consulate in Sao Paulo, the state where the group is most dominant.
Crimes investigated include passive and active corruption, economic involvement in business, embezzlement, illegal access, usurpation of functions, abuse of power, concussion, falsification of documents and abuse of power.
“21 UNCC investigators and two IT experts from UPTI and the Judicial Police took part in the operation on Brazilian territory in collaboration with the Federal Police, accompanied by two judges from the government ministry DIAP Regional de Lisboa,” the statement said. credentials have been sent to the editors.
In Portugal, the event was attended by ten investigators and computer experts from the SP, accompanied by a judge from the government ministry DIAP in Lisbon. Two search and seizure warrants were executed, as well as four computer search warrants to seize digital evidence.
At the national level, the operation received support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, namely through the dismissed employees who monitored the proceedings in Brazil, as well as the Consulate General of Portugal in Rio de Janeiro.
Author: morning Post This Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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